Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Real Men…
Some of the guys in my church are reading a book by Bob Lepine in which he refers to something noted by Robert Lewis:
Real men, according to Lewis, reject passivity, accept responsibility, lead courageously and expect the greater, eternal reward. Lewis rightly asserts that the mantle of leadership laid on men is distorted by the Fall in one of two ways: either a man is a selfish abusive dictator or, more often, he is a passive follower who has surrendered his leadership responsibility to the women around him. — Lepine in The Christian Husband, p. 24
Truth.
A Heart of Compassion
Determine to be tender with the young,
compassionate with the elderly,
sympathetic to those who struggle
and tolerant with the weak & wrong,
because at some point in your life you will have been all of these.
~From a plaque on the wall of Rev. Maurice Friedlund’s office.